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Karen Pratt, ed.
Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative: A Festschrift for Elspeth Kennedy.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994.
ISBN 0859914216.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 160x240x23mm.
Page count: xxi,206pp.
Main languages: 1 essay in French, the rest in English; quotations generally given without translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild wear on the boards and spine; some light foxing on the page edges; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £12.00
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[Publisher’s price £50.00]
Weight without packaging: 547g.

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Contents:
Baumgartner, Vers, prose et fiction narrative (1150-1240);
Sturm-Maddox & Maddox, Renoart in Avalon — generic shift in the Bataille Loquifer;
Kay, Motherhood — the case of the epic family romance;
Pensom, Thematic structure & social structure in Le Jeu de Robin et Marion;
Boulton, Tristan & his doubles as singers of lais — love & music in the Prose Roman de Tristan;
Pinder, Marriage & sanctity in the Old French St. Alexis poems;
Watson, Outdoing Chaucer — Lydgate’s Troy Book & Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid as competitive imitations of Troilus & Criseyde;
Classen, Transpositions of dreams to reality in Middle High German narratives;
Savage, Transformations of the narrative in Beowulf;
Eley, How long is a Trojan War? Aspects of time in the Roman de Troie & its sources;
Wallace, Malory’s 'Take the Adventure' & French tradition;
Lloyd-Morgan, Lancelot in Wales;
Taylor, Translation as reception — La Danse macabré.
Appendix: Tabula gratulatoria.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 2
Illustrations: monochrome frontispiece
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: writings of Elspeth Kennedy
Index: yes 

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